Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

 After buying things from Amazon, I get bombarded with suggestions of things to buy of very similar items to what I have just bought. As an ...

It is interesting (and annoying!) that when you have recently bought something you are bombarded by emails recommending you will buy the ver...

Amazon, the online delivery service, is like a UK wheat spread in that some hate it and some love it. Over the years we must have ordered hu...

Each autumn, I try to make crab apple jelly with the crab apples on our one tree. Last autumn was pathetic. Looking around the shops, we fou...

Amazon is like Marmite in that some are dead against Amazon and some are for the company.  They should always treat workers well. Yes, they...

Amazon is selling Sandisk Ultra 128GB micro SD cards for £13.99. A few years ago this would have been unheard of.  Imagine what memory will ...

They must all work on algorithms, but it always seems creepy when all the emails I get from Amazon recommending new things always relate to ...

A few months ago we bought an Amazon Dot at half price from Amazon. I bought it as it was so inexpensive: if it was no good, I would not hav...

Recently, I bought an Amazon Dot with Alexa at about half price. When not in use we switch it off at the mains to prevent any data gathering...

Amazon is a bit like the UK yeast spread Marmite: you either love it or hate it! My wife and I really try to support local, village busine...

So this appeared in my inbox this morning. 21p with free delivery !! This is considerably cheaper than UK postage. At these prices how can a...

Both my wife and I have been "caught" by Amazon Prime. Neither of us wanted this service and we both cancelled immediately. As f...

As part of my wife's Christmas presents I ordered a CD from Amazon on Nov 11th 2017 . Despite many new dates it has still not arrived. ...

Years ago I visited someone in prison and the searches on the way in were very thorough. Apparently there is a real issue with drugs and sm...

At Christmas, I bought my wife a lovely hardback book filled with colour photos called " English Cathedrals" by Simon Jenkins. I b...

Morrisons is signing a deal to sell its food via Amazon in the UK. Does this spell the beginning of the end of the high street as we knew it...

 This morning I received this email from KK4HSX saying that (certainly in the USA) Amazon is already selling wifi connected slow cookers c...